Organize tasks professionally with Nitro

Lists

It wouldn't be clear just to store all the tasks in a simple series in the software. To get a clearer view, organize the tasks in lists. In File | Add List or by clicking Add List at the bottom left of the window, you can add an appropriate list name.

The way you structure tasks is up to you. You could distinguish between work and home tasks or create a list for each major project. Or, you can hold to the GTD philosophy and distinguish between resources and locations.

To add an entry to a list, you can click the list in the left navigation pane and click Add or use any of the other alternatives.

Views

With the help of the entries in the navigation pane, Nitro wants you to concentrate more on the essentials. One way is to navigate among the lists.

The optional Focus item at the top of the navigation pane groups the tasks without regard to lists. Thus, you can see which tasks you should perform based on their due date. Next shows you tasks that are due soon. To see all your tasks, click All Tasks .

One way motivate yourself is to occasionally visit the Logbook (Figure 3), which contains the tasks you've already completed – provided you add them to the logbook. If you add a check mark to a task or an entry in the Focus area, you mark it as completed.

Figure 3: You save completed tasks in the logbook, which removes them from lists.

Changing to the logbook shows you a note of how many items you've completed and which could be added to the logbook. Clicking the note adds the items to the logbook.

You can also switch focus from item to item using the View menu or by pressing Ctrl+1 through 4 – with each number being the item in the navigation pane. To view All Tasks , for example, press Ctrl+4.